Attractive stage-trained actress who made her screen debut as the female lead in Haskell Wexler's brilliant anti-establishment critique "Medium Cool" (1969). Alternating between film and TV, Bloom earned praise in Peter Fonda's "Hired Hand" (1971) and has appeared in films for Clint Eastwood ("High Plains Drifter" 1973; "Honkytonk Man" 1982), Jeremy Paul Kagan ("Heroes" 1977; "The Journey of Natty Gann" 1985) and Martin Scorsese ("After Hours" 1985; "The Last Temptation of Christ" 1988).
Education
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School of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, BFA, 1959
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HB Studio, New York, New York
Milestones
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1967 Broadway debut, replaced Glenda Jackson in Marat/Sade
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1969 Film acting debut in Medium Cool
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1973 First film with Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
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1974 TV-movie debut, Where Have All the People Gone?
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1977 First film for director Jeremy Paul Kagan, Heroes
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1982 Appeared with Eastwood in Honky Tonk Man
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1983 Returned to Broadway to co-star in Neil Simon s Brighton Beach Memoirs
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1985 First film with Martin Scorsese, After Hours
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1985 Played small role in Kagan s The Journey of Natty Gann
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1988 Played Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Scorcese s The Last Temptation of Christ